Menefee, a student member of Alpha Omega Alpha, graduated from the School of Medicine in 1936. He was a professor of medicine in the pulmonary allergy division (1936-1938, 1940-1971). During World War II, Menefee was a member of the medical...
Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...
(Left to right) Richard S. Lyman, Adolf Meyer, and Wilburt Cornell Davison. Lyman was professor of neuropsychiatry from 1940 to 1951. Duke Hospital’s Meyer Ward for psychiatric patients was named for Meyer. Davison was the first dean of the School...
Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Wiley Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
Julian Deryl Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and...
Francis Huntington Swett was a member of the original faculty as a professor and chair of the Dept. of Anatomy from 1930 to 1943. He co-wrote Introduction to the Medical Sciences for Medical Record Librarians, with J.H. Neese. He died in 1943.
Davison was pediatrician, chair of pediatrics (1930-1954), and first dean of Duke University School of Medicine (1927-1960). In 1926, Duke University president William Preston Few recruited Davison away from Johns Hopkins University. Davison's...
Nicholson, a graduate of Duke University (A.B., 1927) became chief of the metabolism clinic (1940-1955) and dean of continuing medical education (1949-1968). His research interests were in metabolic diseases, particularly the treatment of diabetes.
Lenox Baker graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1933. He served as professor of orthopedics and orthopedic surgery. He was the chief of the Division of Orthopedics (Department of Surgery) from 1937 to 1967.
Crispell was a professor of psychiatry with the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1933 to 1946. He served during World War II as a lieutenant commander with the United States Naval Reserve Office.
Warner Lee Wells received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Duke University (A.B., 1934; M.D., 1938). He was a member of the house staff of Duke Hospital and an associate in the Dept. of Surgery (1938-1945).
Joseph W. Beard was professor of surgery from 1937 to 1973. Beard, and his wife Dorothy, were an internationally prominent cancer team. In 1946 Beard became the James B. Duke professor of surgery and was appointed professor of virology in 1965.
Portrait of Russell Dicks, a professor of pastoral care, the director of clinical pastoral training, and chaplain at Duke University Hospital from 1948-1958.
Group photograph of the Executive Committee of the School of Medicine, taken in Dr. Forbus' office. The administration of the Duke University Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, and Duke Hospital was performed, subject to the...
Hart came to Duke University in 1929 as a member of the original faculty of Duke Hospital. In 1929, Hart initiated the Private Diagnostic Clinic plan with Frederic Moir Hanes. He served as chair of the Private Diagnostic Clinic and later as...
Susan Dees was professor of pediatrics from 1939 to 1978, and chief of the Dept. of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy-Immunology from 1948 to 1974. She established the pediatric allergy training program in the early 1940s.
Lowenbach was a professor of neurology from 1940 to 1963 and chair of the Dept. of Psychiatry from 1951 to 1953. He returned to Duke as a visiting professor in the early 1970s.
Ernst Peschel was assistant professor of medicine from 1947 to 1972. He wrote extensively on the health implications of colleague Walter Kempner's Rice Diet program.
Uniformed male and female house staff, interns, or faculty of the Dept. of Radiology. Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department...
Courses in roentgenology and radiology were taught at Duke Hospital as early as 1930 by staff in the hospital's radiology department. The radiology department held weekly conferences on x-ray technology for medical, surgical, and pediatric house...
Ewald W. Busse in the 1970s. Ewald W. Busse was a early leader in the field of geriatric psychiatry and a founder of the Center for Aging and Human Development, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry and Dean Emeritus of Medical and...
D. Gordon Sharp (M.A. Duke, 1937 and Ph.D., Duke, 1939) operates the electron camera in a laboratory. "This $18,000 electron microscope which takes pictures of tiny viruses and magnifies them as much as 100,000 times their actual size, has just...
Dai, a psychotherapist, was a professor of mental hygiene and psychotherapy at Duke University from 1943 until 1969. Dai, a native of China, graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai, China in 1923. He came to the U.S. on a fellowship to...
James Paisley Hendrix was an associate professor of pharmacology and therapeutics from 1938 to 1972. He became a leading specialist in internal medicine.
Dr. Dennis Bernard Amos (center) working in the lab with two others. Dr. Amos was professor of immunology and experimental surgery at Duke University from 1962 to 1993.
Duke faculty and hospital staff in the amphitheater. (Left to right, Row 1) Watt Eagle, Mary Poston, Julian Ruffin, Nell Paschall, Lillie Pladman, Mary Stokes. (Row 2) Durena Wetmore, Carrie Sykes, Annie H. Campbell, Lillian Trevathan, Susan...
Robert Lee Flowers addresses faculty and house staff during the tenth anniversary celebration of the School of Medicine, held from November 29-30, 1940. Flowers was President of Duke University from 1941 to 1949.
Robert Randolph Jones was a member of the original faculty of the School of Medicine and Duke Hospital. He served as house staff and associate professor of surgery from 1930 to 1941. In 1941, he was fatally shot by a psychiatric patient who was...
Ewald W. Busse in the 1980s. Ewald W. Busse was a early leader in the field of geriatric psychiatry and a founder of the Center for Aging and Human Development, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry, and Dean Emeritus of Medical and...
Lt. Colonel Clarence E. Gardner (later chair of the Dept. of Surgery at Duke) was chief of Surgical Service of the 65th General Hospital. Near the end of the war, Dr. Gardner was promoted to full colonel and became a surgical consultant to the...
Hansen-Pruss came to Duke University in 1930 as a member of the original faculty of the Duke University School of Medicine. Hansen-Pruss originated the Allergy Clinic in 1930 and became chief of the Allergy Service. He served as chief of the...
F. Bayard Carter plays catcher during a ballgame at the Duke Hospital staff picnic. Francis Bayard Carter was chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1931 to 1964.
Jane Elchlepp, M.D., Ph.D., was a professor, member of the Department of Pathology, and assistant vice president for health affairs, planning, and analysis. Elchlepp worked closely with William Anlyan to oversee planning and construction of Duke...